BizAcademy: Giving Kids Valuable Real-World Business Experience

In a four-day entrepreneurial workshop, BizAcademy offers students from under served urban school districts opportunities they would never have otherwise: the chance to run their own company. With BizAcademy, high school students learn the business basics directly from talented salesforce.com employees and industry leaders like Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com and Salesforce.com Foundation, and Tim Draper, Managing Partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson and founder and chairman of BizWorld Foundation.

The students are able to experience business from the inside out. They manage all aspects of a company from raising money and learning about finances, to manufacturing a product of their own creation, to marketing and selling their product all using Salesforce. And they get to keep the profits. In addition, students are placed in valuable summer internships. The program also offers scholarships for exceptional students to help pay for college—and a promising future.

 

In the summer of 2005—the inaugural year of the program—25 students were chosen out of the 100 that applied. In 2006, at least another 100 students will be served. And the following year, that number should grow to 500. This scalable and replicable program is something that will become a hallmark of the Salesforce Foundation over time.

 

San Francisco: March 2008 (with youth from MYEEP
London: TBD
Dublin: July  2008
Toronto: July 14-18 2008 Christie Ossington Neighborhood Centre

Alicia: BizAcademy All Stars and Intern Summer 2007
Chris: BizAcademy All Stars and Intern Summer 3007
Cristina: BizAcademy Intern 2006-2007
William: BizAcademy Intern Summer 2006 and Spring 2007
Samson: Reflection from BizAcademy President from April 2007, San Francisco
BizAcademy Dublin 2007
Jessica: BizAcademy Graduate and Intern at Salesforce.com
Stephanie: BizAcademy Graduation and Intern at Salesforce in Singapore!
Read the article about BizAcademy 2005.

Available internships for BizAcademy graduates from San Francisco - summer 2008